"Don't be ashamed to ask".

This idiom comes from "The Analects of Confucius. Gongye Chang", which means he is sensitive and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a doctor named Kong Yu (yin yu) in the state of Wei. He was open-minded, studious and upright. At that time, there was a custom in society that after the death of the supreme ruler or other high-status person, he would be given another title, a posthumous title (sound shi). According to this custom, after Kong Yu's death, he was given the posthumous title "Wen", so people later called him Kong Wenzi.

Zigong, a student of Confucius, was a little dissatisfied. He thought that Kong Yu also had shortcomings, so he asked Confucius: "Teacher, why can Confucius and Wenzi be called 'Wen'?"

Confucius replied: "He is smart and eager to learn, and he is not ashamed to ask questions. This is why he is called 'literary'." This means that Kong Yu is smart and studious, and does not consider it as a matter of seeking learning from those whose positions are lower than himself and who are less knowledgeable than himself. It is a shame, so the word "文" can be used as his posthumous title.

The meaning of not being ashamed to ask is that it is not shameful to ask for advice from people whose status and knowledge are lower than one's own. It describes being open-minded and eager to learn.

I believe that asking without shame is not only a learning method, but also a learning attitude. When people praise someone's academic prowess, they often call him or her knowledgeable. What is knowledge? The so-called "knowledge" means that if you don't know how to learn, just ask if you don't understand. Only by constantly learning and asking questions can we continuously enrich and improve ourselves.

It is important to keep learning, but it is even more difficult to actively ask questions. When you encounter problems, you should ask both older people and younger people; you should ask both senior experts and scholars as well as ordinary workers. It’s not easy to ask someone younger or in a lower position than you for advice. So, let’s take a look at what Confucius, who is known as the “Teacher of All Ages”, did. Confucius is a great thinker, politician, educator and founder of Confucianism in my country. People respect him as a saint. However, Confucius believed that no one, including himself, was born with knowledge. Confucius said, "I am not born to know." If you don't understand something, you will ask others. Once, Confucius went to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to participate in a ceremony for the king of Lu to worship his ancestors. As soon as he entered the Imperial Ancestral Temple, he asked people about this and that, and he asked about almost everything. At that time, some people ridiculed him and said: Who said that Confucius was a learned "sage" who knew etiquette? You see, when he came to the Ancestral Temple, he would ask questions about everyone he met and everything he encountered. Confucius heard people talking about him and said: I always ask questions when I meet people about things I don't understand. This is exactly the manifestation of my desire to know etiquette! Confucius's spirit of not being ashamed to ask questions has set a very good example for us. The great scientist Copernicus liked "asking" since he was a child, which led to his unremitting pursuit of science. Zhu Kezhen, a Chinese meteorologist and geographer, was 84 years old. When he learned that his grandson-in-law had come to his home, he couldn't wait to ask him to teach the basic knowledge of elementary particles in high-energy physics. This spirit of being humble and eager to learn, not ashamed to ask questions, willing to be mentored by others, and never satisfied, vividly reflected in a great scientist, is the basic element for him to reach the glorious pinnacle of life.

As students, learning is our task, and pursuing knowledge is our goal. Don’t be ashamed to ask questions and ask questions with an open mind. It is impossible to learn knowledge without an attitude of asking questions with an open mind. There is a lot of knowledge in any field that you do not yet know, and there is something you can learn from everyone. As long as you are open-minded, you can discover what you want to learn, and only if you are open-minded, you can learn what you want to learn. Therefore, not being ashamed to ask questions should start with an open-minded academic attitude.

We must not be ashamed to ask questions and be diligent in asking. Smart people know that asking more questions will increase their knowledge. Only by diligent study and inquiry can we continuously accumulate knowledge, constantly update knowledge, constantly enrich and improve ourselves, and adapt to the needs of the times.

Students: Not being ashamed to ask one’s subordinates is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation, which has been praised by people since ancient times. Learn to know, ask to know. The key to unlocking all science is undoubtedly the question mark, and the wisdom of life probably lies in asking why everything happens. Only by asking while learning and learning by asking can we obtain true knowledge. If you know well and are willing to ask questions, you will become a talented person. We must promote and carry forward this spirit of "not ashamed to ask questions".

To obtain true knowledge, one must keep an open mouth. "Whenever you ask questions, you will gain wisdom." Ask those who are capable, wise, strong, and those who are not as good as yourself. Only then can knowledge and learning be continuously enriched and improved. The relationship between "asking more" and "study diligently". Carry forward the spirit of diligence and inquiring, and be the master of knowledge. I hope that all our students can develop the habit of diligent study and inquiring in their future studies, be the masters of learning, and fly freely in the sky of knowledge!